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Founded Jan. 31, 1928 by Seth M. Vining
(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
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Vol. 65 - No. 60
The weather Wednesday, high
81, low 52, hum. 62 percent.
We understand Tryon Pres
byterian Church's recent perfor
mance of John Rutter's Requiem
received high praise. A local
critic who never grades a Tryon
Presbyterian performance
above a C-plus actually
relented and said that maybe an
A- was warranted.
Election news: As you know,
there is an important primary
contest coming up May 5 in
Polk County. April 28 will be
the last day to cast an absentee
ballot, and May 1 will be the
last day for one-stop voting.
Precinct 1 voters, remember -
you vote at Tryon Town Hall’
. year* not the public works
building. And independents,
remember: you can vote in the
Republican primary. Just do it.
What's happening:
Rabies clinics will be held
Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m. at
lour locations, Bonnie Brae
Cr^T? F^P’ 131 . Green
Creek School, Saluda School
and Sunny View School; from 3
to 5 p.m. at Mill Spring School;
and from noon to 2 p.m. at Red
rox Veterinary Clinic
Democra tic Men's Club
will meet on Saturday at 8 a.m.
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TRYON, N.C. 28782
Red Fox Country
Club To Be Sold
At Auction Monday
Red Fox Country Club will
very likely have a new owner
Monday afternoon.
A foreclosure sale of the
club's golf course, club houses,
and unsold residential lots was
ordered March 24th by Polk
County Clerk of Court of Court
Judy Arledge. It will take place
Monday at noon on the Polk
County courthouse steps.
Red Fox became an asset on
the books of the federal savings
and loan bailout agency, the
Resolution Trust Corp. (RTC)
in March 1990, when RTC took
over North Carolina Federal
Savings and Loan. N.C. Federal
held a $2.6 million mortgage
on the properties which was in
default.
After trying for two years to
sell Red Fox and negotiate with
var i°us interests involved,
RFC last month finally pet
itioned for a foreclosure sale.
The substitute trustee, attor
ney Albert L. Smead Jr., will
read a description of the prop
erty Monday and then may give
an opening bid.
Smead said he would not
now the RTC's opening bid
amount until Monday. And no
one was sure how many inter-
m'^t be bidding.
Bill McLennan, co-chairman
membership committee
The Club at Red Fox, said
his group of local buyers will be
there if 13 more families join
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FRIDAY, APRIL 24,1992
An architect's rendering of the main entrance to the new Pine Crest
conference center. But for rain, work was to begin last Monday.
Pine Crest Building
Conference Center
Construction on a new
3,500-square-foot building
designed to offer meeting space
for corporate retreats will soon
begin at The Pine Crest Inn in
Tryon.
Superior Construction of
Tryon was the low bidder,
according to Pine Crest owner
Jeremy Wainwright. Work was
to begin last Monday, but rain
prevented that. The building is
to be complete by Sept. 25th.
When all the extras are
included - furniture, carpeting,
audio-visual equipment -
Wainwright said the cost of the
new conference center will
reach $250,000.
Wainwright said he planned
the investment after careful
study. He said he has been
working to develop the corpo
rate meeting business at Pine
h ^ ? St 18 months,
results encouraging
niM>t St y r ar we did 600 r °om
n ghts of corporate meeting
usiness, he explained,
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Architect's rendering of new
Pine Crest conference center as
seen from New Market Road
roughly 15 percent of his ove
rall occupancy. "This year
we hope to double that."
As the corporate retreat
business grows, so will the
number of jobs at Pine Crest
Inn. "Work makes jobs," he
said.
The only drawback so far has
been that when business groups
are in town for a meeting, Pine
Crest has had to shut down the
dining room to give the visitors
a place to meet.
'This is very irritating for our
local guests," who can't come
over for dinner, he said
Wainwright has been working
with meeting planners and a
m ^ ke b n g firm from Savannah
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